Many of Scala’s features come from the functional programming paradigm. This session will not be a comprehensive coverage of Scala, rather the coverage will be selective. This talk will not ...

Functional programming can be combined with other paradigms, he notes. “For instance, functional goes really well with object-oriented. Scala is a functional language in that sense.

Scala is essentially the C++ of high level (ergo, memory managed) languages on the JVM. It supports many paradigms equally, and due to this, it has sacrificed the "simplicity" of the language ...

For Java and other object oriented and functional programming languages code quality metrics and guidelines are available. Unfortunately for Scala, a multi paradigm programming language, this is ...

Immutable software. For example, in regular programming you initialize a variable to some value: x = 1 return x * 2. This will return 2. But the value of the program can change when another programmer ...